The sun slowly appeared behind the distant hills, illuminating the ancient castle, which, despite the smoky places in some places and still burning in some places, looked like a truly unshakable bastion. And what had he been before for almost a thousand years.Only today, apparently, the time has come when the axiom of its safety has lost its truth.
In the predawn silence, a crowd of black robes, covering the entire body of the mantle, looked terribly terrifying in a special way, which slowly, in complete silence, moved towards the bulk of the castle.
Ahead went the leader of the dark magicians, who lazily waved his wands at the obstacles standing in his way. Whether it be fragments of the walls of the castle itself, that it’s unknown how they flew over a long bridge, or the corpse of a giant, or golems plundered by martial magic in the form of knights.Nobody bothered them to cross the solid stone bridge and step into the vast courtyard, where until recently in the center there was an unexpectedly artsy fountain, which now looked more like small gravel.
At the main doors leading into the castle, no less than a crowd of people gathered. True, if you look closely, you can see that almost all of it consisted of children and adolescents, barely diluted with adult magicians, who found the strength to come here in an attempt to give battle to the enemy.The leader of the newcomers of magicians took a step forward, while smiling broadly, which made his bearless white snake-like face even more repulsive than before.But as soon as he took in air to burst into a long speech, something in the sky blazed unbearably brightly.
And the next moment, a heavy shell dived right at the wreckage of the fountain from the air with a wild whistle. And the blow from his landing was such that everyone without exception jumped a couple of centimetres up. Some people could not even stay on their feet, plopping down on the fifth point.
The rising dust was dispersed by a very angry dark magician, whose speech was so brazenly cut off.
And as soon as the veil that closed the review disappeared, those present in bewilderment stared at the "shell". Although in appearance it looked more like a crossbow bolt. If there are such bolts - a meter thick shaft and a height of four meters. And looking like solid metal.
Mo-oh-org!
This is how one can describe the state of those present - they simply looked perplexedly at the gift that fell from heaven and slowly blinked in attempts to realize what was happening.Only now the "bolt" itself did not want to wait.White lines sparkled through it, revealing hundreds, if not thousands of small runes deposited on its entire outer shell, after which a thin streak of light cut through the eyes of the observers, which escaped from the top of an unknown artifact and described a circle as if ... it scanned those present.
- The current date is determined. The current coordinates are determined. Time point analysis completed. I confirm the discovery of the axial world. Deviation 0.0006%. Deviation found acceptable. Key life forms discovered. I’m forming an information package, - in complete silence, a melodic female voice, issuing words incomprehensible to magicians, seemed completely alien. However, he was such. “Sending a packet,” after this statement, the upward-looking part of this strange arrow opened up, showing the shocked audience a small sphere of something iridescent.
A moment - and several long branchy lightnings of black color go inside this sphere. Another moment - and the "arrow" has re-formed, as it was before. The runes on her body also went out. There was still more deathly silence than before.A minute passed, another, third ...The dark magician, frowning all this time, finally having regained consciousness and already coughing, bringing his throat reduced by tension, was about to start his speech as an artifact again, just as before, revived sharply. The runes flashed again. The top parted, showing an iridescent sphere.
But he did not stop there - the main parts of the case, of which there were four pieces, were heard to the sides, after which they rose up, forming a kind of umbrella.The artifact suddenly buzzed heavily, and luminous dots appeared between the edges of the segments that formed the ends of the “umbrella”, which instantly turned into lines, connecting them sequentially. Another moment - and in the resulting square, the same glowing, floating in the air, runes and various geometric shapes begin to appear, thereby forming a complex magical seal.
Belatedly, he realized the leader of the dark magicians that this did not bode well, struck with a powerful explosive spell ... Which was completely absorbed for a moment by a flashing power shield that surrounded an increasingly frightening artifact.One of the especially cowardly magicians from the back rows spun in place, wanting to be as quickly as possible from there ... so that he would simply be splashed with a bloody suspension in the nearest district.
